A long-anticipated federal report on the viability of two pilot ExpressLanes projects on the 110 and 10 freeways will come before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority governing board April 24, according to Metro spokesman Rick Jager.

The report by the Federal Highway Administration, the agency that helped fund the experimental pay lanes on the two freeways, was originally supposed to go before the Metro Adhoc Congestion Pricing Committee at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, but was pulled from the committee agenda because the transportation agency received the report too late to meet public meeting law requirements.

“Apparently we just received it yesterday. We are reviewing it,” Jager said in an email Monday.

Instead of going to the committee, governing board members will receive the report on Friday, he said. It will be presented to the board on Thursday, April 24 at its regular meeting.

In addition, Metro is recommending it double the amount of money spent on the experimental project and extend the contract of an engineering firm overseeing the pay lanes for another six months.

Staff is recommending Pasadena-based Jacobs Engineering receive a six-month extension to perform customer service and review monthly trip data, as well as repair closed circuit television systems and cuts in the fiber optic system due to vandals, according to a staff report.

Jacobs Engineering will receive an extra $630,000 to complete the work by December 2014. Its original contract was for $497,504. That was bumped to $597,504 last month.

The extra work comes at the request of Metro to do “an increased level of effort for the review and analysis of monthly ExpressLanes trip and transaction data as well as occupancy count verifications,” according to a staff report.

The additional money would be used for overseeing the pilot pay lanes projects on the 110 Freeway, which began in November 2012 in Los Angeles and on the 10 Freeway in the San Gabriel Valley, which began Feb. 23, 2013.

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All expenditures must be approved by the Metro governing board, whose next meeting is 9:30 a.m., April 24.

In order for the project to received additional federal funding, the FHWA must see improvement in traffic flow on these freeways. The cost for taking the pay lanes varies by day and time but a round-trip averages around $11.

A preliminary report produced in-house in July calculated ridership on the 110 Freeway ExpressLanes at 57,256 trips per day, higher than the 50,000 trips before the conversion. On the 10 Freeway ExpressLanes, between the 605 Freeway and Alameda Street, ridership was about 24,613 or 88 percent of the total before the Feb. 23 conversion.